What follows is an overview and timeline I wish I had when I first started reading the Divine Comedy. Because the poem relates closely to its cultural, political, and spiritual background, it’s good to have some broad strokes.

11 AM – 5 PM in Wayland, Mass. — For thousands of years some of our culture’s greatest writers and thinkers have explored the role of the astrologer and the nature of astrology, and there is much to be mined from Dante’s Divine Comedy.